Optimal System Design

We used our probe-based storage model to optimize design of MEMS devices for specific performance goals. We used the range of values for each configurable parameter shown in Table 1 to bound our search, with the exception of the number of tips in $Y$ per cluster. Because this parameter has a negligible contribution to the transfer time when its value is greater than 2, as can be seen from Figures 5b and 6b, we set it to the default value 10.

To find the optimal set of configurable parameters, we exhaustively searched the entire range of the configurable parameter space to find a set of values that optimized the given metric. We varied each parameter by intervals of 1$\mu$m for the movement range in both $X$ and $Y$ and 10 for the number of active tips.